Monthly Archives: January 2003

My first 1G drive was £540. It was put in a PC with a 120M drive that had cost about £120 second hand a few months to a year earlier. So paying 'only' 50p a megabyte didn't seem too bad. … Continue reading →

I don't have the receipt for this one, but it was bought about a year earlier. Single speed, it said, although it couldn't actually keep up with 150k bytes per second – its real speed was about 75k/s. About the … Continue reading →

Tidying up the flat, I came across the receipt for my 1G hard drive. Bought in 1994, it could be made to appear as two 512M drives as lots of PCs wouldn't accept anything larger than 512M existed. It still … Continue reading →

Last night, just as I'd walked across the railway bridge, some man 'indecently exposed' himself to me – he had his penis out and was masturbating, asking if I wanted 'any of this'. I ignored him (I was on the … Continue reading →